主题：【原创】美国藕断丝连的政教分离 -- 唵啊吽
美国政府机构里有基督教牧师。如上下两院都有自己的牧师，这些牧师都是基于基督教的。网上相关资料可以用Chaplain（牧师）加上congress或senate等关键词在百度搜索上找到。美国军队也有随军牧师。
这是美国政府的誓词。这个誓词中的国家、自由和正义等概念都是限定在上帝之下的。国会开会，由牧师带领祈祷宣誓。
中国把美国宪法中的一句话翻译成“人是生而平等的”。但其英文的意思是人是被上帝创造出来平等的“men are created equal”。
美国建国国父都是虔诚新教徒。不过，他们还不是原教旨，拒绝按照圣经教义建国，而是按照文艺复兴的思想立宪。但是，宗教痕迹还是留了下来。我记得第一次在华盛顿杰弗逊纪念堂里读刻在墙上的那段美国宪法，立刻感受到其语调中的宗教气息。用词带有宗教色彩，如上述的created，还有holy之类。
美国竞选总统，往往会有选民质疑候选人是否信基督的问题。美国政府也提倡基督教，只是不区别具体教派。
图为1774年9月美国大陆议会第一次预备会议在费城基督教堂开会前祈祷的情形。美国议会是在祈祷中正式启动的。上端字为“教会与大宪章”。1215年英王约翰在教会的压力下签署了大宪章。
带领国会第一次祈祷的牧师没有多久就逃到英国去了。这幅是George Duffield的肖像。George Duffield是美国国会任命的第一个国会牧师。1789年国会通过决议将国会任命牧师和国会的宗教仪式定为法律。
独立战争时期国会通过的派牧师到军队中的决议。（有点像TG派政委到军队）
On July 4, 1776, Congress appointed Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams "to bring in a device for a seal for the United States of America." Franklin's proposal adapted the biblical story of the parting of the Red Sea (left). Jefferson first recommended the "Children of Israel in the Wilderness, led by a Cloud by Day, and a Pillar of Fire by night. . . ." He then embraced Franklin's proposal and rewrote it (right). Jefferson's revision of Franklin's proposal was presented by the committee to Congress on August 20. Although not accepted these drafts reveal the religious temper of the Revolutionary period. Franklin and Jefferson were among the most theologically liberal of the Founders, yet they used biblical imagery for this important task.
美国根据圣经故事设计国会印章。
美国国家印章：“反抗暴君就是服从上帝”。
国会斋戒日宣言
国会感恩节宣言。
基督教教义的海军道德守则。
国会背书官方圣经。
In the spring of 1785 Congress debated regulations for settling the new western lands--stretching from the Alleghenies to the Mississippi--acquired from Great Britain in the Peace Treaty of 1783. It was proposed that the central section in each newly laid out township be reserved for the support of schools and "the Section immediately adjoining the same to the northward, for the support of religion. The profits arising there from in both instances, to be applied for ever according to the will of the majority." The proposal to establish religion in the traditional sense of granting state financial support to a church to be controlled by one denomination attracted support but was ultimately voted down.
国会西部拓土政策中推行基督教的决议。
In this resolution, Congress makes public lands available to a group for religious purposes. Responding to a plea from Bishop John Ettwein (1721-1802), Congress voted that 10,000 acres on the Muskingum River in the present state of Ohio "be set apart and the property thereof be vested in the Moravian Brethren . . . or a society of the said Brethren for civilizing the Indians and promoting Christianity." The Delaware Indians were the intended beneficiaries of this Congressional resolution.
国会通过决议用基督教教化土著。
在http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/rel04.html中有更多美国国会与宗教的相关资料。
以基督的名义，行驶自由杀戮的权利。
所以中国就在老美眼里是反基督的国度，以前老蒋是个基督徒，所以在美国很有市场。
余杰这个人不就对美国人说中国是反基督的么，所以余杰在美国很有市场。
现在地下教会真的很嚣张，连大学（学院桥周边的几所）都有了，亲身经历过。
指望一神教国家实现真正完全意义上的政教分离是不现实的。基督教国家能做到欧美这种程度就不错了，回教国家能做到土耳其程度就已经是破天荒了。
美分党说伊朗是神权国家，中国不应该和这样的国家来往blabla
我说 中国批评伊朗是神权国家倒是可以，美国? 等啥时候美国把钞票上的in God we trust去掉，等啥时候美国总统不用手按圣经宣誓就职的时候再来批评伊朗吧!
Christian nation.
Without enlightment, a before-protestant movement Catholic nation is as barbarian as some of those unenlightened Islamic nations. You can just check the Spanish inquisition documents to see the point.
As I said before, in some Catholic nations, people still do not have access to bibles and still have not read the bible for themselves. The more bibles are widely read, the more likely that elites can not monopolize the religious power and the more likely that it will be 政教分离.
这是哪国的国家印章？
跟《山海经》一样的地位时。其实它们本来跟《山海经》差不多----都是包含少量真实历史的神话小说------不同之处在于《山海经》虽救不了人却没有感染性也不会成为各种圣战和屠杀的理论依据。唐鸢:一神教难以与中华文明融合，其中一条就是反对祭祖祀孔
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这是美国第一届常务委员会设计的国会印章的背面。当时用封印（Seal），即文件上穿一个绸带，用蜡把绸带压在中间。那个蜡饼就是封印，所以压蜡饼的模有两个面。一个正面，一个背面。这是第一届国会设计的国会封印的背面模。正面应该有“United States Congress”字样。这是“Grand Seal”的设计，后来第二届和第三届又出了不同的设计。真正制造出印是以后的事。所以，第一个设计从来没有被制造出来。